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My sunken red balloon

Simon Elliott

I´m a sunken balloon.
The sunrise illuminates my lack of roundness.
My cadence and my inevitable reunion with the hard earth.
perhaps it is with the ground below that I should make love
 and not the sky princess,
 but red balloons should float!
Perhaps it is with history I should find my fuel for love
 and not the future?
Oh exhaustion holds me firmly in a thousand tones of dark red.
Each one thick and suffocating.
If only a new colour would appear on the horizon
 to help cure my lovesick arithmia.
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Submitted on February 08, 2013

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Scheme ABCDBEDFGHIJ
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 498
Words 93
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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Simon Elliott

Throughapoetseye.blogspot.comSimon Bernard Elliott.International poetry.It´s about creativity and real expression.I am a traveller, I´ve lived all over the world. Always in close proximity to nature and poetry. I´ve written since I was sixteen now I am 31. I aim to open people´s eyes with my poetry. I aim to entertain and also to provoke reactions. If I can do any of these things- I think the hours spent writing will all be worth it. more…

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